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Daily True-Crime News Update: 6 Dead in Michigan, UK Teen Murder Inquiry, France Body Discovery

A true-crime news update covering the Missaukee County multi-scene shootings in Michigan, a teenage murder inquiry in Bedfordshire, the discovery of a woman’s burned remains in France, Luigi Mangione’s federal plea, and violent-crime updates from…

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The Crime Ledger: Aug. 14th 2026

Luigi Mangione entered a federal guilty plea for the killing of a healthcare executive, highlighting a day of significant legal movement. Law enforcement is also managing a multi-scene mass shooting in Michigan and separate incidents…

When Music Turns Deadly

A comprehensive index documents 22 major homicide cases involving musicians, producers, and music-industry figures spanning six decades. Covering cases ranging from targeted assassinations and robberies to domestic violence, the archive separates confirmed legal convictions,……

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What Necrophilia Means in Forensic Psychology

What is necrophilia? In forensic psychology it differs from necrosadism, and what post-mortem evidence can and cannot prove in a criminal case.…

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Sexual Sadism Disorder: What Crime Scenes Cannot Diagnose

What sexual sadism disorder means, how it differs from consensual BDSM and violent crime, and what forensic evidence can establish in a case.…

Folie à Deux: Shared Psychosis, Symptoms, Cases & DSM-5

What is folie à deux? Explore shared psychosis, shared delusions, DSM-5 classification, causes, symptoms, forensic cases, risks and common misconceptions.…

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Ontario’s Response to Serial-Predator Investigations

How the Bernardo investigation exposed failures across police jurisdictions and led to the creation of the Ontario Major Case Management.…

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How Plea Agreements Work in Canada

Learn how plea agreements work in Canada, what defence may negotiate, how judges review guilty pleas, when a joint sentence can be rejected.…

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Erotophonophilia and Sexual Homicide: What the Evidence Actually Shows

What erotophonophilia means, how it differs from sexual homicide, and why profiling, crime-scene behavior, and diagnosis require caution.…

Elizabeth Short Murder: The Black Dahlia Case, Evidence, and Unanswered Questions

Elizabeth Short’s 1947 Black Dahlia murder remains one of America’s most infamous unsolved cases. This dossier examines the crime scene, autopsy findings, suspect theories, media distortion, forensic limits, and the unanswered questions that still surround…

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The Black Dahlia Murder: Elizabeth Short, Los Angeles, and the Making of an Unsolved American Crime

Black Dahlia Murder. The 1947 murder of young Elizabeth Short, known as the Black Dahlia, remains one of Los Angeles's most famous unsolved cases: an American cold-case mythology in the same cultural register as……

Kharkiv Cannibalism Case: Kostikov Murder, Mutilation & Cannibalism Claims

A father and son were convicted of murdering Yevhen Petrov in Kharkiv. Explore the Kostiukov case, mutilation evidence, disputed cannibalism claims and trial.…

Leonarda Cianciulli: The Correggio Murders, Victims & Soap-Maker Myth

Leonarda Cianciulli was an Italian serial killer convicted in 1946 for the murders of three women in Correggio between 1939 and 1940. She targeted victims with promises of marriage or employment, coerced them into……

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The Hinterkaifeck Murders: Evidence, Myths, and the Unsolved 1922 Cold Case

Inside the unsolved Hinterkaifeck murders: six victims, mysterious footprints, a contaminated crime scene, disputed suspects and the evidence that survives from 1922.…

The Cleveland Torso Murderer: Victims, Evidence & Suspects

Inside the Cleveland Torso Murderer case: 12 canonical victims, Kingsbury Run discoveries, Eliot Ness, disputed suspects, forensic limits and modern DNA identification efforts.…

Paul Bernardo: The Scarborough Rapist, DNA Delay and Victim Record

He was a well-dressed, well-liked professional in an affluent suburb, before DNA evidence connected him to a string of Scarborough rapes that predated the murders of Leslie Mahaffy, Kristen French, and Tammy Homolka. The file…

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Understanding the Dark Side of Humanity: What Drives People to Commit Evil Acts?

Dark Side of Humanity and it's capacity for cruelty has long been a subject of profound inquiry, often attributed to an innate darkness or a singular evil nature.…

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The Marquis de Sade Criminal Profile: Violence, Power and the Man Behind “Sadism”

A sourced Marquis de Sade criminal profile reviews the confirmed allegations, overturned death sentence, imprisonment, writings, and origin of “sadism.”…

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The Case of Julia Rawson: Dismembered Body in a “Flat of Horrors”

Nathan Maynard-Ellis, a serial killer fan, allegedly murdered and dismembered Julia Rawson in his 'flat of horrors' filled with gory masks.…

The Crime Ledger: October 15, 2026

Orlando police charged Dale Smith Jr. with murder in the 2011 disappearance of his ex-fiancée, Michelle Parker, and gardaí arrested a man…

The Crime Ledger: October 14, 2026

Duane “Keffe D” Davis was sentenced to 40 years to life for the 1996 murder of Tupac Shakur, and Luciano Frattolin got…

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The Clifton Suspension Bridge suitcase murders: the full case against Yostin Mosquera

Legal status: On 21 July 2025 a jury at Woolwich Crown Court unanimously convicted Yostin Andres Mosquera, 35, a Colombian national, of…

The Crime Ledger: October 13, 2026

Crime Ledger, Oct. 13, 2026: Waterford arson that killed four, Payton Gendron jury selection, Jette police shooting, Aubagne and 39 more cases.…

The Crime Ledger: October 12, 2026

Crime Ledger, Oct. 12, 2026: Simon Carman plea in Pattaya, Aubagne school shooting, Christchurch double murder, Mannix deaths and 37 more cases.…

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The Crime Ledger: October 11, 2026

Crime Ledger, Oct. 11, 2026: Shane Seiber murder charge, Christa Pike back in prison, Tusk plot arrest, Daphne juror leak and 41…

Daily Crime Ledger: Saturday, October 10, 2026

Daily Crime Ledger: Saturday, October 10, 2026 Today’s Ledger covers 65 cases from 30 countries, from verdicts and sentences to charges and…

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Chris Watts and the Frederick, Colorado Family Murders

Chris Watts pleaded guilty in 2018 to murdering his pregnant wife Shanann and daughters Bella and Celeste in Colorado. The lies, the…

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